Faculty

Primary Faculty

Our faculty members instruct students, guide them, and make them partners in advanced research projects. They combine practical experience with in-depth scholarly activities to advance the department's mission.

  • Mason IST associate professor Hemant Purohit

    Associate Professor / Tenured

    Research Interests: The intersection of computing and social sciences to understand and model online human behavior to address social problems.
  • Mason IST associate professor Hadi Rezazad

    Associate Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: AI and ML, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Education Technology, Health Informatics, Human-Centered Computing, Smart Communities
  • Mason IST professor Ioulia Rytikova

    Professor / Teaching
    Associate Chair for Graduate Studies; Director of Online MS AIT Program

    Research Interests: Cognitive and Learning Sciences, Educational Data Mining, Data Sciences, Personalized Learning, STEM Education, Health Information Technologies, Operations Research, and Engineering
  • Mason IST Professor Kamaljeet Sanghera

    Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Personalized learning
  • Mason IST assistant professor Gene Shuman

    Associate Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Data mining, machine learning, analytics, visualization, biomechanical applications, software engineering, and project management.
  • Mason IST assistant professor Sharmin Sultana

    Assistant Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Multimodal Image Processing, artificial intelligence, computer vision and deep learning focusing on the medical imaging domain.
  • Mason IST professor Kun Sun

    Professor / Tenured

    Research Interests: Trustworthy computing environment, moving target defense, AI/ML security, smartphone security, software-defined networking, and software security.
  • Mason professor in practice Gail Therrien

    Professor of Practice, Department of Information Sciences and Technology

    Research Interests: Women in Technology, Technology Education, Learning Analytics, Robotics, Cybersecurity
  • Mason IST assistant professor Sadegh Torabi

    Assistant Professor / Teaching

    Research Interests: Internet measurements, security of Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Security of the EV Charging Ecosystem, Malicious Internet/Network traffic analysis and characterization, Malware/Ransomware detection and analysis
  • Mason IST department chair Özlem Uzuner

    Professor, Department Chair / Tenured

    Research Interests: Health Informatics, public health informatics, mental health informatics, and computational social science.